Lab 1 - Species

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Get Species observations

## [1] 1223

Question 1. How many observations total are in GBIF for your species? (Hint: ?occ)

• 1227 observations

Question 2. Do you see any odd observations, like marine species on land or vice versa? If so, please see the Data Cleaning and explain what you did to fix or remove these points.

• There are a few points not in the area in Africa that they should be. These points are on the east coast of the US and in Europe. I’m assuming that these are from giraffes that are in zoos, and not because there are populations of Masai Giraffes there. I’ve decided to remove the points that are not on the continent of Africa. Since there were only a few points outside Africa, I manually found the keys of the points and filtered them out.

Get Environmental Data

Pseudo-absence